Policy information sourced from Enfield Development Managament Document (DMD)
DMD 90 Appropriate Uses in the Crews Hill Defined Area
- Within the Defined Area, proposals for new garden centres on sites which have become redundant or are no longer required for horticultural uses will only be permitted if all of the following criteria are met:
- In the case of a replacement building the new building must not be materially larger than the one it replaces and must be built to reflect an open form of development;
- There is no external display or sale of goods other than trees, shrubs or other plants or horticultural products;
- External display of goods and gardening products related directly to gardening, such as greenhouses, garden sheds, paving or rockery stones or related to leisure in the garden, must not be sited on a main road or any other position that would be visually intrusive or compromise traffic safety;
- Advertisement displays on the site should be appropriate to, and in scale with, the road frontage of the premises and should complement the area;
- Not less than 90% of the sales floorspace should be used for the sale of plants, bulbs, seeds and plant materials (whether for indoor or outdoor use), equipment, structures and products required for the purposes of gardening or the laying out of a garden; and
- Sale of other goods should relate to the enjoyment of the gardens.
- Proposals for intensive livestock units in the Defined Area will be only be permitted on existing glasshouse sites which are not directly adjacent to the Crews Hill residential estate.
- Proposals for residential development within the Defined Area, including the change of use of existing buildings, will be refused.
This policy should be read in conjunction with Core Strategy Policy 33.
For more information please see the Development Managament Document (DMD)